Shake that thing!

[cyrano]

I now have all six episodes of 'Thirty Days'. I was just struck by the factoid that families that make under $25K a year are twice as likely to divorce. So... sanctity of marriage people, how about a raise in the minimum wage law to preserve marriage? Or a more healthy and robust public welfare system? Think of the children!

Watched 'Last Boy Scout' and 'Presumed Innocent' this weekend. Netflix Noir Film Festival. (: I really enjoyed both of them--very different but at the same time very similar. Each gets four wags.

I got to see my friend Anne (who is now a teacher in Bakersfield) and help her with her lesson plan yesterday, even if I was sad and lame lying on my back guy.

Sitting on the couch very quietly, currently on the 'heat' of the 'heat and cold' programme. The heat is a sticky pad so it's going to hurt to remove it. Plus I'll have to get off the couch to get the freezy thing. I'm not in a big rush. (:

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[mnarra.livejournal.com]

I did not do my best for my children. I could have done much better, but hadn't the balls to end my marriage and take the blame.
I taught my children that, if you are tolerant and forgiving, you will be brutalized.
I taught my children that some people work their asses off so that other people can soak up the benefits.
I taught my children that if you love someone, you will accept her abuse, emotional and physical.
I taught my children that, when you do grow the balls to leave, you lose everything voluntarily to punish yourself for the sin of quitting.

I am not proud of that decade of my parenting.

I am proud of the last two years of my parenting.

They aren't dead. I'm not dead. There's still time to do some right things.

[sararainmaker.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

You didn't teach your children that...
Your ex did. Your ex put you in a position where you had to decide on your family or your sanity. Your ex put you in a position where you had to give up all thoughts of a two parent household for your children.

You had to make the most difficult decision of your life.
You taught your children more good than you know in that period. and yes, you are all still alive, you still have time to improve things even more. Divorce is never easy on children, but with a loving, caring and responsible parent it's a hell of a lot better than the alternative.

*hugs*

[mnarra.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I don't agree, but thank you.

[sararainmaker.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it takes being an adult, being a husband or wife and/or being a parent to truly come into the values and morals our parents have taught us. As a friend of mine said at my wedding shower on Sunday, "Growing up, the people who I admired were everyone BUT my parents. It wasn't until I was grown and a mother of my own children that the persons I admired the most were my parents."

*winks* You are doing just fine... Just don't let them see you chasing after deer in the nude... I know If I had seen one of my parents doing that I would still be going to therapy. :D

[sararainmaker.livejournal.com]

What my friend said was in response to my answer to a "20-questions" about me game... Apparently my Aunt had been sneaking in calling my fiance for the past week and getting all sorts of information about me. Basically it was a twisted version of the newlywed game... anyway the question and my answer: "Who does Kelly admire the most - Her Father"

if you would have asked me that 10 years ago when I got out of high school, I can tell you for sure it would not have been one of my parents. :D